A Foundation for Strategic Agenda Voting

Abstract

We offer complete characterizations of the equilibrium outcomes of two prominent agenda voting institutions that are widely used in the democratic world: the amendment, also known as the Anglo-American procedure, and the successive, or equivalently the Euro-Latin procedure. Our axiomatic approach provides a proper understanding of these voting institutions, and allows comparisons between them, and with other voting procedures.

Published as: A Foundation for Strategic Agenda Voting in Games and Economic Behavior , Vol. 87, 91-99, January, 2014